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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Certification .......................................................................................................................................................... 6
Warranty ............................................................................................................................................................... 6
Limitation of Warranty ......................................................................................................................................... 6
Restricted Rights Legend...................................................................................................................................... 6
Declaration of Conformity.................................................................................................................................... 7
Terms and Symbols .............................................................................................................................................. 8
Warnings .............................................................................................................................................................. 8
SECTION 1 .................................................................................................................................................................. 11
INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................................... 11
Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................ 11
Features............................................................................................................................................................... 12
Description ......................................................................................................................................................... 13
Programming and Data Access ........................................................................................................................... 13
VM1548 Specifications ...................................................................................................................................... 15
SECTION 2 .................................................................................................................................................................. 17
PREPARATION FOR USE ........................................................................................................................................... 17
Installation .......................................................................................................................................................... 17
Calculating System Power and Cooling Requirements ...................................................................................... 17
Setting the Chassis Backplane Jumpers .............................................................................................................. 17
Setting the Logical Address ................................................................................................................................ 18
Front Panel Interface Wiring .............................................................................................................................. 19
SECTION 3 .................................................................................................................................................................. 21
PROGRAMMING ....................................................................................................................................................... 21
Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................ 21
Notation .............................................................................................................................................................. 22
EXAMPLES OF SCPI COMMANDS ............................................................................................................................ 23
TTLTRIG Circuit ............................................................................................................................................... 23
Interrupt Circuit .................................................................................................................................................. 24
Output Register Circuit ....................................................................................................................................... 25
Input Register Circuit ......................................................................................................................................... 26
Bi-directional Clock Circuit ............................................................................................................................... 27
APPLICATION EXAMPLES ........................................................................................................................................ 28
Write Mode ......................................................................................................................................................... 28
Read Mode.......................................................................................................................................................... 30
Write/Read Mode ............................................................................................................................................... 33
REGISTER ACCESS EXAMPLES ................................................................................................................................ 37
VXIPLUG&PLAY EXAMPLES ................................................................................................................................... 39
SECTION 4 .................................................................................................................................................................. 45
COMMAND DICTIONARY ......................................................................................................................................... 45
Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................ 45
Alphabetical Command Listing .......................................................................................................................... 45
Terminology ....................................................................................................................................................... 46
Command Dictionary.......................................................................................................................................... 50
IEEE 488.2 COMMON COMMANDS ......................................................................................................................... 51
*CLS ................................................................................................................................................................... 51
*ESE ................................................................................................................................................................... 52
*ESR? ................................................................................................................................................................. 53
*IDN? ................................................................................................................................................................. 54
VM1548C Preface
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